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41) Growing pains
Author:
David Mayer
Category:
Insurance
Parents always say they never regret having their kids. It kind of goes with the territory. Love conquers all (eventually). But whilst you're living through it all, it seems like you're struggling from one crisis to the next. Like when they first learn to drive. Despite your better judgement, you let them drive the family car. Later you buy them something to run around in. But, when they're starting off, you add them to your own auto insurance policy (and say prayers).
Frank and Joan had two...
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42) Car doctors? Get a second opinion!
Author:
David Mayer
Category:
Insurance
Whenever you set up a system, it's only as strong as the weakest link. Sometimes, the cause of the problem is inside the organization. Other times, the problem is a conflict of interest in the middleman. Whatever the cause, you can get trampled on unless you stand up for yourself.
Most days, when you're driving on the freeway, you get to see the wreckage from traffic accidents. You pass by because it's not your problem. Auto insurance companies pick up the pieces. At least, that's what all...
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43) What do you call a deer with no eyes? No idea!
Author:
David Mayer
Category:
Insurance
When you sit behind the wheel of your off-roader, there's so much metal around you. It's easy to think nothing can ever go wrong. Who needs auto insurance? But then you meet someone like Jack and suddenly you aren't as sure anymore. Jack was driving down from Eureka to Frisco. "It was early in the day so we decided to take off into the Lost Coast trails." He smiled and talked for a while about his family's love for nature. "We stopped...
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44) Protecting Your Home from the Rising Risk of Floods
Author:
Isla Campbell
Category:
Insurance
In recent years, British people have been forced to endure some disasters; not least of all flooding in England and Wales. Such flooding has seen hundreds of thousands of people without homes or access to basic infrastructure and services.
No one can say exactly why the natural flooding in the UK is happening more frequently, or why it is becoming more severe. Some people blame global warming for raising the sea levels, others blame the over-population of the country. Whatever...
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45) Prepare Well to Survive in an Ageing World
Author:
Daniel Collins
Category:
Insurance
The world ages every day as it travels through the solar system and so does everyone on it. In the UK the average age of the population is advancing, too. According to the Office of National Statistics the average age was 39-years-old in mid-2007, up from an average 37-years-old a decade previously.
Not only are we all advancing in age but during 2007 the total number of pensioners in the UK became greater than the total number of under-16s for the first time since the National...
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46) Your Home is Your Castle - So Get it Protected!
Author:
Isla Campbell
Category:
Insurance
It used to be an inalienable right of every Briton that a 'man's home was his castle'. He was the boss in his own home and he could admit only whom he wanted to his property. However, in the 21st century that is no longer true as there are now an estimated 1,043 different state powers under which government inspectors can legally gain access to your home, without your permission.
Furthermore, there are also laws to prevent you doing whatever you want inside your property, but th...
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47) All the information you need about Renters Insurance
Author:
Clint Johnson
Category:
Insurance
The most common types of renter's insurance provides you with coverage for fire and theft, but you can customize most policies to provide you with the amount and covered items you need. For this reason, it is helpful to spend some time comparing the policies of several renter's insurance companies.
Renters insurance is not a type of insurance that is mandatory to have, but it is one of the most important decisions you can make for your home. With this type of insurance, you will be protect...
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48) More information about Professional Indemnity insurance
Author:
Clint Johnson
Category:
Insurance
Because professionals do make mistakes, they do need to have professional indemnity insurance to back them up financially. When a financial loss is evident that comes from a failure or a mistake on the part of the professional, may cause a financial award to be given to the person suffering the loss. Even if there is proven to be no negligence on your part, the professional still can be held responsible for such situations.
As a professional in any level of business, you need to consider...
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49) What is Income Protection and how can it help
Author:
Clint Johnson
Category:
Insurance
For most people, though, this type of insurance is quite necessary and useful. Don't overlook its benefit.
Coverage Under General Income Protection Insurance
There are various options available for protection insurance in terms of the length of time the insurance plan will be in place. Generally, the contract term will range from two years, to five years, or more. Or, the plan may include protection through a specific age, such as 60 or 65. This difference is dependent on the type of in...
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50) Out of the Ordinary Insurance
Author:
Isla Campbell
Category:
Insurance
When people think of insurance, they most likely conjure up images of cars, houses, travel and pets but there are some not-so-standard insurance policies that you may never have thought about!
Believe it or not there is actually a company in Florida which offers insurance against Alien Abduction! You can insure yourself against being kidnapped by extra-terrestrials, and if you are snatched by a bright light from the sky, then you need to hope you are dropped back on Earth so you...
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51) The History of Life Insurance
Author:
Isla Campbell
Category:
Insurance
Most people who have a family or dependents of some kind take measures to make sure that if anything happened to them, those dependents would still be looked after in financial terms.
For most of us that means taking out a life insurance policy that pays out a lump sum to whoever is named on it. Not only does this bring peace of mind to the dependents, it also brings peace of mind to the person who has arranged the policy.
But if you think that insuring your life to...
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52) Are You Ready For The Future?
Author:
Isla Campbell
Category:
Insurance
There is nothing quite like the feeling of being in control of your life. To a certain extent we all control our futures - for example we choose the jobs we are in, we choose what we want to do with our lives and we have ambitions to better ourselves too.
But unexpected events can and do happen. That's why it is wise to make sure we put the right measures in place to enable us to face the future with more confidence, knowing that if anything does happen we are in a position to...
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53) How Ebooks offer free information and a passive income?
Author:
pillai lakshmi
Category:
Insurance
An electronic book, generally known as an Ebook, is the virtual counterpart of a printed book. It is usually read on computers or on dedicated hardware known as Ebook devices. The first Ebook content was the Declaration of Independence and was created in 1971. It is now stored in a database called Project Gutenberg. That database at present stores 25,000 free Ebooks with over 3,000,000 download each month.
In the past, Ebooks consisted of old novels from Charles Dickens and other classic wri...
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54) The real deal about car insurance
Author:
Clint Johnson
Category:
Insurance
Everybody who owns a car may have already gone through a lot when it comes to insurance offers. Understanding how to get insurance is often too complicated for a lot of people to understand. It takes a lot of effort from car insurance companies to explain everything about their policies and most of the time they have no reason to explain all of the fine print to their policyholders. Some of these insurance institutions look toward their gains rather than helping people know the truth about t...
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55) Finding affordable family health insurance
Author:
Clint Johnson
Category:
Insurance
Knowing your family's medical bills are covered is the best way to feel protected and secure. Having good health insurance is the way to ensure that kind of security. The need for a good and comprehensive health insurance policy increases greatly when you have family members looking to you for support.
Your family can be exposed to a greater risk of not receiving the required medical attention in times of need if they are not covered by a family health insurance plan. Since the cost of heal...
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56) Group health insurance and its benefits
Author:
Clint Johnson
Category:
Insurance
Companies conduct their activities with the help of their employees. If they are focused on their jobs, their efficiency increases, thus the results of the company will be better. Therefore, the well-being of employees should be the main concern in any company.
Due to the fact that health is a major concern for all people, this is one aspect that should not be overlooked by the management of the company. Keeping all employees healthy and without concern is one of the best ways to increase pr...
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57) Stay safe in the home: A home safety checklist
Author:
Paul McIndoe
Category:
Insurance
Everyone has been in a similar situation: you have left house wondering if you have unplugged the iron or turned off the electrical fire, and as a result you panic for the remainder of the time spent away from the home, often returning to find you hadn't and had thus panicked unnecessarily. However, it does suggest that it is important to identify any safety problems in your home at an early stage, as maintaining safety in the home can help to reduce those domestic accidents for all family...
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58) Housing Bubble! Don't panic!
Author:
David Mayer
Category:
Insurance
Wherever you look, the story is the same. House prices are in free fall. What are the facts? According to the S&P/Case-Shiller national index, house prices fell by 14% in the year to April 2008! Those of you who like history will know that's a faster fall than the Great Depression of the 1930s. I always like to be encouraging.
So what's going on? Well, a lot of people convinced themselves that buying property was a sure-thing investment. Buy today, sell tomorrow with a big gain. That made i...
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59) SOHO - not just "pretty" places in Manhattan and London
Author:
David Mayer
Category:
Insurance
SOHO stands for Small Office, Home Office and it's used to refer to people who work from home (sorry it's a boring explanation). With the cost of business premises still high even though the housing market is in free fall, it's natural to base start-ups in the spare room and the garage for storing inventory. With computers, people can easily work from home. Employers cut their expensive office overheads by having their full-time staff telecommute. The self-employed freelance or run e-commerce s...
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60) What to do if you run your own business
Author:
David Mayer
Category:
Insurance
Almost everyone understands the idea of life insurance. You pay a premium. When the life insured dies, the insurance company pays out to the beneficiaries. That works well in the many cases where the life insured is employed. But those who run their own businesses, whether as sole proprietors, partners or majority shareholders in a corporation have slightly different needs. Often, family members do not want to see something that has been important to them sold up and dissolved. Pride and a sens...
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